Why Europe's Newest Office Suite Betrays Digital Sovereignty Promises

The announcement of Euro-Office as Europe's first open-source office suite obscures two decades of genuine open-source leadership from LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org. More critically, Euro-Office's default adoption of Microsoft's proprietary OOXML format perpetuates the exact content lock-in it claims to prevent, effectively advancing Microsoft's strategic interests rather than European independence. This case reveals how 'digital sovereignty' narratives can be strategically misused without delivering the technical freedom and user control they promise.